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...Still, this neutrality allows W&N’s outsize authors to shine, from predatory Bellow to dilatory Jagger. We finish, though, in twilit serenity....
...Waits bellows, opening his arms. “Frankenstein’s monster,” she hisses and says she’ll only forgive him if he writes a song for her....
...I bought so many coats, T-shirts and shoes, and they all seemed to bellow shy insecurity and poor taste. Maybe the problem was black....
...“They yelled and shouted when they were angry — they would bellow,” says Callil. “I think that was a bad inheritance for here [England].”...
...The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump....
...“Even Tarquin wins a medal / Mary Berry’s got a medal / So why don’t you get a medal?” You wouldn’t call it subtle....
...An early employee was Sonia Orwell, who brought in Saul Bellow and Mary McCarthy — so setting a pattern whereby literary novelists such as Edna O’Brien and Margaret Drabble complemented Weidenfeld’s own...
...Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, by Charlotte Gordon, Hutchinson, RRP£25 / Random House, RRP$30 Although the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter...
...Apparently not, for on page 345 we get a Kafka-esque metamorphosis when Saul Bellow changes, mid-paragraph, into Joseph Heller....
...Children by Salman Rushdie; Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee; Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov; Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth; Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; Season one of The Sopranos; Veronica by Mary...
...At 1.46am Gregorio De Falco, a senior coastguard officer, bellows down the phone: “Get back on board, damn it!”...
...Of course I’d have liked children,” he bellows. “Made a bit of an error there. Ha, ha, ha.” Surely it’s not too late? “It’s far too late....
...As the East River hurls us forward, the Charles D lets out a sleepy bellow....
...He was five years old now…He could feel his infancy disintegrating, and among the bellows of congratulation that accompanied each little step towards full citizenship he heard a whisper of loss.”...
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